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Good Choices, Godly Choices | Learning to Follow Jesus | Adventures: Bible Truths in Action · Adventures: Bible Truths in Action

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  Hey, kids, here we are at the Downtown Renaissance Festival.
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  Would you look at that feller over there?
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  He looks like one of those fancy St. performers.
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  I, Ernest P Wordle, shall investigate further.
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  Come on kids, follow me. To be or not to be that?
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  Is the question. Well, that sounds like Mr.
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  Shakespeare himself. What's the answer, Mr.
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  Shakespeare? Oh well.
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  Well, I'm not sure. It's your choice to be or not to
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  be our side chooseth. Yeah, the Bible says choose for
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  yourselves this day whom you will serve.
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  But As for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord.
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  Joshua 2415 So. Then the question.
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  Is to be a servant. Or not to be a servant?
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  No, Sir, that's not entirely true.
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  You see, everyone is a servant. The question is, who are you
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  going to serve? So.
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  Then I shall ask. It to be a servant.
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  Of the Lord or not to be a servant of the Lord that.
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  Is the question that is correct a Mundo?
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  Mr. Shakespeareth, when you choose to be a servant of the
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  Lord, you're really choosing to be a leader.
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  We choose to become leaders by obeying God's Word.
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  I'll be seeing you, Mr. Shakespeare.
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  I got to go. Would you look you there, Suzie
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  Q's ripping the petals off of another flower.
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  She's been doing that an awful lot lately.
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  Reckon I'll go over there and try to save that flower.
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  He loves me, He loves me not. He loves me, he loves me not.
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  So that's what all this is about.
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  Hey there, Suzie Q. Ernest, you scared me.
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  I don't mean to scare you, Suzie.
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  Q Everybody knows he loves you. The question is, do you love
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  him? It's your choice.
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  He loves me, my choice. Sure, the Bible says choose for
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  yourselves this day whom you will serve, but As for me, in my
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  house we will serve the Lord. Joshua, 2415.
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  Ernest. Yes, Susie Q.
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  I've already chosen to serve the Lord, I already know Jesus loves
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  me, and I know we choose to become leaders by obeying God's
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  Word. Well, what were you picking the
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  petals off of that flower for? I was thinking about you.
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  I got to go. My mom was in the oven.
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  I mean, the cake is calling me. I mean, what's that over there?
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  Ernest play for me. Looks like the coast is clear.
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  I think I gave Susie Q the slip. Know what I mean, kids?
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  Oh, would you look at that, It's my good buddy Daryl.
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  I reckon he's going to want to play another one of them games
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  where I end up getting slapped in the face.
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  Hey Ernest, want to play a little game?
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  Sure, I love games. Pick a hand, any hand.
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  It's your choice. Oh goody, I get to choose.
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  I love choosing course. It's always good if you choose
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  the right thing. I'll pick that one.
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  Ouch. You chose wrong, Ernest.
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  I guess so why do I get the feeling I can't win this game?
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  Want to play again Ernest? Maybe later, right now I got a
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  choice for you, Daryl. What is it?
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  Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.
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  But As for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord.
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  Joshua, 2415. What are you blabbing about,
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  Ernest? It's a choice we all have to
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  make in life, Daryl. Only this is not a childish
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  prank. And what if I don't?
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  Choose. You snooze, you lose.
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  Know what I mean, Daryl? The only way to win is to choose
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  to serve the Lord, and by choosing to serve the Lord, you
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  choose to become a leader by obeying God's Word.
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  Ernest, there you are. Susie Q, I'd like you to meet
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  Daryl. Daryl, this is Susie Q.
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  Daryl, do you have a girlfriend? Ernest got to go.
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  Oh, where did I put that flower? Ernest, Daryl, wait for me.
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  The Bible teaches us to always remember the Lord and put Him
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  first place in our lives. In the book of Joshua, Joshua
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  tells the people it's their choice to fear the Lord, which
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  means respect Him and serve him with their whole hearts.
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  Joshua chose to do the right thing, whether other people
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  agreed with him or not. He decided that he and his
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  family would serve the Lord, and that was definitely the right
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  choice. Oh, you, you just had to listen
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  to that snake, didn't you? Well, why didn't you stop me if
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  you didn't want me to eat that apple?
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  You saw the whole thing. Oh, don't try and blame me for
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  your mistake. God wants His children to be
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  trustworthy, willing to accept responsibility for their
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  actions. To him, Him who knows the right
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  thing to do and does not do it, To him it is sin.
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  James 4/17. That's a verse from the New
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  Testament. It hasn't even been written yet.
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  I'm not the real eve, I'm just reading what's on the script.
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  Hello. I got to go talk to Freddie
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  about this. It's not right.
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  When I come back, we'll start over from the top.
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  Sorry about that. You just had to listen to that
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  snake, didn't you? Why didn't you stop me if you
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  didn't want me to eat that apple?
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  Don't try to blame me for your mistake.
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  God wants His children to be trustworthy, willing to accept
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  responsibility for their actions.
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  My actions. Why don't you accept
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  responsibility for not making the serpent leave?
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  God gave you authority, you know.
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  Adam. Where are you?
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  That's God. Quick hide.
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  Adam, why are you hiding behind the puppet stage?
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  Should he say? Puppet stage there.
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  Wasn't a puppet stage in the Garden of Eden?
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  Just go with it. Fine, Adam, what have you done?
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  It wasn't me, it was the woman you gave.
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  Me Adam, to him who knows the right thing to do and does not
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  do it, To him it is sin. James 4/17.
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  Why is he saying that? I thought we talked about that
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  verse. Don't look at me, I'm not the
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  director. To him who knows the right thing
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  to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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  James 4/17. Cut Freddy, can I talk to you
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  for a minute? Not again.
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  Oh. I said the verse again.
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  Sorry. Adam, where are you?
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  Why are you hiding? Adam, I'm here.
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  Adam, what have you done? It wasn't me, it was the woman
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  you gave me. It wasn't my fault.
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  It was the snake. He tricked me.
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  I want my children to be trustworthy, willing to accept
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  responsibility for their actions from now on.
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  Adam, you'll have to work hard to make a living.
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  Eve, when you have children, it will be hard work for you too.
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  And the snake will crawl on his belly from now on.
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  The. End.
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  Now that was much better, especially having Freddie walk
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  around instead of just talking, don't you think?
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  I like the verse. To him who knows the right thing
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  to do and does not do it. To him it is sin.
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  James 4/17 That just says it all.
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  I agree. I know it's New Testament, but
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  that was exactly Adam's problem, like so many people today.
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  To him who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, To
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  him, it is sin. James 4/17.
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  You're right. OK, let's do it again.
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  Can't I got to go home and feed the kids?
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  See ya. I can't stay either.
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  I've got an appointment with a dentist.
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  I'm getting my teeth cleaned. All right, Private Jerry, this
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  is where we'll camp for the night.
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  Why don't you sleep over there? It's dark over there, Sergeant
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  Dean. Besides, there's no tent over
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  there for me to sleep in. That's.
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  Because the tent is in your. Backpack.
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  Oh yeah, that's right. It's in my backpack because
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  that's where I put it. You said we were going camping
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  and so I put my tent in the backpack so that I would have a
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  place to sleep. That's right, Private.
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  So do I sleep in the backpack or should I take the tent out of
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  the backpack? Why don't I just take it out of
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  the backpack? Set it up over there, away from
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  my tent. Or that's a good idea, Sergeant,
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  because my Mama says I snore real loud and I wouldn't want to
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  keep you awake. Private, What are you doing?
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  What am I doing? I'm going over there to take out
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  my tent like you said. I mean, what are you doing
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  holding the Bible down in front of you like that?
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  Oh well, the Bible says that God's word is a lamp to my feet
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  and a light to my path, so I'm using it to go over there since
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  it's dark and I don't want to trip and fall because I didn't
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  bring any band aids in case I scrape my knee or something.
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  Here use my flashlight. We're being attacked by aliens.
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  Run for cover, Sergeant Beam. Calm down, private.
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  This is a flashlight. It's to help you see where
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  you're going in the dark. I thought it was an alien ship
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  trying to beam us up. Buddy, it was just a flashlight.
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  Hey, then it's like my Bible. Well, sort of.
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  You should read your Bible so that you'll always know what to
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  do in life. The Bible will help you know
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  what is right and wrong, and of course then you'll do the right
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  thing. That's what I said.
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  God's word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
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  But a flashlight works better to help you see in the dark when
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  you're trying to set up a tent. Oh yeah, thanks.
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  Did you say set up a tent? Because if you said set up a
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  tent, I've never set up a tent before and I don't think I can
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  do it. Just follow the easy step by
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  step instructions that come with every tent.
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  You do have the instructions, don't you?
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  They're on a small white piece of paper.
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  Small white piece of paper. It's like the Bible of tents.
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  God leads US one step at a time, and so do the instructions for
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  assembling your tent. The instructions will help you
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  take simple little steps one at a time so that you can follow
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  them. Where are your instructions?
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  Well, I was pretending to be in the Army earlier, only I didn't
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  have to pretend that part because I am in the Army, but I
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  was pretending pending that I was being attacked by the enemy.
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  And so I found this small white piece of paper and made a paper
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  airplane, and I was throwing it in the air and the wind caught
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  it, and now I don't know where it is.
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  I'm pretty sure those were my instructions.
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  How did you ever get in the army?
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  Well, you see, I wanted to play soldiers and I couldn't find my
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  GI Joe. So I thought if I could find a
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  uniform big enough that I could be the GI Joe, and this is the
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  only place I could find in the uniform.
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  So here I am only on GI Jerry because Jerry is my name.
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  But then you already know that, don't you, Sergeant Dean?
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  Back it up, private. Let's go back to the barracks.
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  Does that mean we're not going to camp out?
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  You're not upset at me, are you, Sergeant?
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  My mom used to get upset at me and then she'd start crying.
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  Are you going to cry, Sergeant? Sergeant.
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  Even when it seems like we're in the dark, not knowing what to
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  do, Jesus said that God's word is a lamp to our feet and a
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  light to our path. It's.
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  Easy to say I can't or I don't know how, but that's not a good
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  habit to form. God's Word helps us understand
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  how big God is and how we can trust Him to work in US and
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  through us. A big part of growing up is
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  finding the courage to face challenges and learn new things,
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